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3628 articles published since 07 Sep 2015
3628 articles published since 07 Sep 2015
Tinubu made the comment during an interactive session with the media after casting his vote on Saturday at Polling Unit 047,Ward 3, in Alausa, Ikeja local government of Lagos in the governorship and state assembly elections.
The chairman, Mushin local government council of Lagos state, Emmanuel Bamgboye, has advised the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) not to engage corps members as ad hoc staff in subsequent elections.
The good news in the rice sector may not be surprising to stakeholders already familiar with developments in the nation’s agricultural sector. But for others, it will encourage interest in what’s going on and how to be part of it.
According to him, rice cultivation in Egypt requires 1.8 billion metres of water in evaporation, transpiration and irrigation each year while Africa produces an average of 14.6 million tonnes of rough rice annually.
Three senators from the northeast, Ahmad Lawan (Yobe), Ali Ndume (Borno) and Mohammed Danjuma Goje (Gombe) and Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa, north central) are said to have indicated interest in occupying the seat.
Some leaders from the southern part of Kaduna state have threatened to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the party's failure to explain why most of its leaders in the state lost their constituencies.
A past minority leader of the Senate and former governor of Akwa Ibom state, Godswill Akpabio, have credited President Muhammadu Buhari's victory at the 2019 presidential election to his defection from the PDP.
On Monday, March 4, some Nigerians under the platform of Occupy Nigeria took over the infamous Unity Fountain, Abuja to protest the declaration of President Muhammad Buhari as winner of the just concluded presidential election.
Professor Teddy Adias, INEC Returning Officer for the district, who announced the result on Wednesday in Yenagoa, said that Diri polled 83, 978 votes to defeat Festus Daumiebi of APC, who got 70, 998 votes.
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